Mayayana wrote:
"Big Al" wrote


| You have to note I'm running Linux so that has a lot to do with GIMP
| decision. I am making notes however. I'm always interested in
| alternatives, even if I do have to power up the ol' Windows. grin


I see. You might be able to run PSP5 or Photo Demon
under WINE. Last I saw WINE was spotty, but that was
some years ago.

It's improved.

Obviously, for commercial titles with "tricksy" methods
of recording valid product installation, it can't help
with those. Any program that "wants to write to a physical disk"
is going to have a problem, as WINE is designed to emulate
a C: drive only at the file system level. Just as the
Bash Shell in Windows 10 does (/mnt/c) - Win10 Bash programs
like say "dd" cannot write to "/dev/sda" as in Bash the
/dev layer doesn't exist.

And that program I tested, where the installer specifically
looks for WINE, WINE cannot be "improved" to avoid such
detection. The program I was testing could detect usage
in WINE and usage in a VM as well. It would only allow
installation on physical hardware and while under Windows.

But the WINE handling of Windows ecosystem calls is
much improved.

Paul